Section 34:
Chief Settlement-officer to have powers of Deputy Commissioner.
When the Chief
Commissioner invests any subordinate Settlement-officer with the powers of a Civil Court for the trial of
any of the suits mentioned in section thirty-three, the Chief Settlement-officer to whom such Settlementofficer is subordinate shall have the powers of the Court of a Deputy Commissioner described in the Central
Provinces Courts’ Act, 1865, sections twelve, nineteen and twenty, with reference to proceedings before,
or decrees and order of, such settlement-officer in such suits.